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Re: Functional Rule-chain?


From: Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:42:45 -0400

Parker,

I'm sure VRT will look into this, however, just an FYI.  If you use PulledPork to update rules, PulledPork will 
autoresolve all the flowbit dependancies for you.

J

On Jun 15, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Crook, Parker wrote:

Howdy all,
 
I was doing some standard performance tuning on my ruleset and noticed a particular oddity the other day.  I noticed 
rule 1:3819 spending a fair amount of time on a decent number of checks with no matches.  So I opened up rule 3819 
and noticed it is just a “flowbits:set, chm_content_type; flowbits:noalert” rule for use by rule 3820.  So I took a 
look at 3820 and it is disabled by default.
 
So my question is: why is 3819 on by default when all it does is set a flag for use by 3820, which is off by default?

--
Joel Esler


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